CONVERSATION : SANDRA VOLNY & JULIEN CHAPUT

As part of the exhibition Fossiles sonores, Fonderie Darling presents a conversation between artist Sandra Volny and her collaborator, mathematician and geophysicist, Julien Chaput. Join us on Saturday, May 6 at 2pm in the Small Gallery for a discussion at the intersection of art and science. Beyond simple storytelling, Sandra Volny and Julien Chaput will seek to bridge the gap between the arts and environmental science in an attempt to envision a practice where environmental concerns meet and resonate.

The event is accessible without reservation and will be held in French.

 

JULIEN CHAPUT
Julien Chaput is a Canadian assistant professor of Geophysics at the University of Texas at El Paso, with broad interests that include everything from passive seismic imaging and temporal monitoring of cryospheric and volcanic systems, to ionospheric imaging using ambient GPS signals, through to prototyping new approaches in ultrasonic medical imaging.
 
SANDRA VOLNY
Sandra Volny is an artist and researcher. Her work develops through explorations of sound, moving image, photography, sculpture, text, and takes shape in installations, instruments and videos. She received her PhD in Arts and Sciences of Art from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne exploring the concept of "surviving aural spaces" in its material, sensory and social constellations. Her most recent work explores sonic soils as witnesses to climate change, realized in collaboration with researchers in biology and environmental sciences. Volny has exhibited her work in Canada and Europe, including at the Dazibao Centre, FOFA Gallery, the Clark Centre Audio Station, the Centre d'Exposition de l'Université de Montréal, the Fonderie Darling’s Place Publique, Michel Journiac Gallery, the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, and Raumlabor 267- Braunschweig. Volny is the founder of the artistic research platform Sound and Space Research.

Sandra Volny's research has been published in various publications and academic journals, most recently in the book New Infrastructures-Performative Infrastructures in the Art Field with the article Resound Kefalonia: A Case Study of "The Surviving Aural Spaces (2021), published by Passepartout Editions, on the Hexagram Research-Creation Network in Arts, Cultures, and Technologies with the text Narratives of Surviving Aural Spaces Told by Soils (2021) and at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ISEA 2020, with the scientific article Aural Soilscapes: Sensory Challenges in a Subterranean World.

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Small Gallery

In response to increasingly noisy environments, artist Sandra Volny probes the tenuousness of silence so as to reveal the background sounds and echoes that fill spaces. In her interdisciplinary sound art practice, she uses the term “sonic residue” to… See more